I don’t follow the news in Germany, so I don’t know the background on this, but this step seems rather dramatic. <\/p>\n
Germany Announces National Lockdown for Unvaccinated<\/a> <\/p>\n My concern is not necessarily<\/i> over the policy. <\/p>\n My concern is that governments seem to be relying more and more on authority and demands. They’re not treating people like adults and trying to persuade them. That’s certainly true in the U.S., and it seems to be true in other places as well. <\/p>\n I know some people will respond along the lines of, “but they’re not acting like adults!” Etc. If you feel that way, you need to take a big step back and take some deep breaths. Like “learning to meditate” deep breaths while you ponder your belly button and so on. <\/p>\n The information coming out of government sources has been confusing and unreliable, and they have not addressed legitimate concerns. There has been a conspiracy (intentional or not, organized or not) between the government, big tech and parts of the media to stifle debate. The attitude sounds very much like “shut up and do as you’re told, peasants. We’ll decide what you should know and what’s best for you.” <\/p>\n I want people to get the vaccine (unless they and their doctor have agreed they have a legit reason not to). And I want this pandemic to end. But not at the cost of creeping totalitarianism.<\/b> <\/p>\n Authoritarian government is a much bigger threat<\/i> than Covid, and it’s sad that more people don’t see that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t follow the news in Germany, so I don’t know the background on this, but this step seems rather dramatic. Germany Announces National Lockdown for Unvaccinated My concern is not necessarily over the policy. My concern is that governments seem to be relying more and more on authority and demands. They’re not treating people … Continue reading “Have they tried persuasion?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}